Pipe-hanger



N. J. WHEELER.

PIPE HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, l9l9.

1,315,890. Pate'nted'Sept. 9,1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed May 9, 1919. Serial No. 295,344.

To all whom it may concern: j

Be it known that I, Noneon'r Josnrii WVnnnLnn, a citizen of the United States, and a rasident of La Fayette, in the county oi. Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Piped-Lingerie, of which the follow ing is a specificatimi.

My present invention relates genera'illy to pipe hangers, and more mrticularly to adjustable pipe hangers, my object being the provision of a construction wherein vertical adj ustment of a pipe hanger may be pro vided for in a simple and convenient manner so that suspended pipes carried thereby may be either leveled or the desired slope thereof brought about.

The means proposed by my invention for carrying out these objects will be now described, .in connection with the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification, and in which:

Figure 1 is a side view illustrating the practical application of myim'ent-ion.

Fig. 2 is a vertical. section through the anchor and the adjusting means, and

Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the anchor member.

Referring now to these figures, my invention proposes the use of certain means in connection with pipe hangers which as usually employed, include a clamp 10 which surrounds a pipe 11 to be suspended, and a hanger arm 12 to the lower end of which the clamp 10 is secured.

In accordance with my inirprovement, the upper end of the hanger arm 12 given the usual pipe thread, and an ad usting ring 13, as best seen in Fig. 2, is employed, the inner surface of which is threaded to screw upon the threads of the hanger arm 12.

The outer surface of the adjusting ring 13 is provided with machine threads to cooperate with the threads 14L of the bore of a cylindrical anchor 15 in the Form of a socket, into the lower end of which the ring 13 1s screwed after its application upon the threaded end of the hanger arm, 12.

The anchor member or socket 15 is closed at its upper end, as seen particularly in Figs. 2 and 3, and is preferably provlded adjacent its lower open end with outstanding lugs or pins 16, by means of which it may be initially seated in the false work or frame work of a building, as for instance by means of nails and the like 17, as seen in Fig. 1, extending beneath the lugs or pins 16 in order to hold the anchor member or socket 15 in place while for instance concrete is being poured and set therearound.

It is obvious that after the anchor member has been thus located within the structure of the building, the hanger arm 12 may be readily adjusted by virtue of the working of the machine threads of the ring 13 within the similar machine threads 14: of the anchor member and adjustment is provided for the hanger armthrough the full movement of the ring 18 in traversing the bore of the anchor member.

It is furthermore obvious that with an anchor member and adjusting ring as proposed by my invention, it is simply neces: sary to cut the hanger arm 12 as usual and run the ordinary pipe threads upon one end thereof, for the reception of the adjusting ring, and the necessity is avoided in this way of calculating the exact required length of the hanger arm so that the same may be accurately cut, as is required under the present practice.

I claim 1. A pipe hanger including a pipe engaging and supporting arm, threaded at one end, an externally and internally threaded adjusting ring, the inner threads of which are engageable with the threads of said arm, and an anchor member having a lengthwise threaded bore within which the said ring is adjustable, the external threads of the ringco6perating with the threads of the anchor member.

2. A pipe hanger including a pipe engaging and supporting arm having nipethreads at "one end, an adjusting ring having internal pipe threads for engagement with the threads of the said arm. and provided with outer machine threads, and an anchor member having a longitudinal bore provided with machine threads for engagement by and cooperation with the outer i'l'iachine threads of the adjustino' ring.

3. A pipe hanger including a pipe supspend to the outer thread of the said adporting arm threaded at one end, an eXterjusting ring.

nelly and internally threaded ring, the inner threads of Which engage the threads of the NORBURT JOSEPH WVHEELER' 5 said arm, and an anchor member having Witnesses:

external projections and provided with a V. D. VAUGHAN,

threaded bore, the threads of which corre- FRED N.-PRASS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

